Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short while after his flight , Dr Kalley put in a claim for compensation for £1,574 , through the British Government , for the damage the crowd had caused to his house . |
| 2 | Chancellor Norman Lamont was also slammed by the Labour leader for the damage the Tories ' ‘ heartless and mindless ’ policies had done . |
| 3 | For the present the reader can take superscripts and subscripts to be equivalent . |
| 4 | For the present the chances of survival are good — BR have just spent a lot of money replacing the Glanrhyd bridge , the scene of a tragic accident two years ago , also on track and signalling improvements . |
| 5 | Although he anticipated a change in the relationship as Britain gradually concentrated on its roles in Europe , for the present the two countries continued to take " a broadly similar view of the world " . |
| 6 | Budgets will be devolved to team managers but for the present the department lacks the confidence . |
| 7 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 8 | With the introduction of wagon building , and the acceptance of Wolverton Train Lighting System as the standard for the LMS the Works were reorganised . |
| 9 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 10 | The spokeswoman for the diocese the Bishop of Durham 's first press officer is definitely not a distant relation . |
| 11 | This requirement has now been dispensed with and in order to qualify for the discount the alarm must be in accordance with the IS199 specification only . |
| 12 | For the parson the whole point of going to university was to become a minister of God . |
| 13 | He had come before luncheon , eaten everything put before him with great dedication , looked about him hopefully for the cigar the household did not possess , and then explained abruptly without any preliminaries to Alexandra that she was her aunt 's sole heir . |
| 14 | For the State the system was unsatisfactory because so little revenue found its way to Moscow , yet fixed salaries were beyond the government 's means . |
| 15 | We we we 've still got the parts for the concerto the guitar concerto , yeah ? |
| 16 | Oh no no no , there was no such , there was there was distemper as it was called , er not like emulsion is today , there was this distemper that was called but er oh no that was that was for the pigsty the distemper was , whitewash . |
| 17 | Only a small staff of permanent employees lived in the cortijo ; for the harvest the bailiff hired day labourers from the emigrant provinces and the local towns . |
| 18 | For the press the facilities were as basic as they were at the hotel . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , as this chapter shows , for the majority the impact of ageism is all too clear . |
| 20 | For the majority the work experience includes alienation from the product of one 's own labour ; controls backed by ideology or coercion as management assert their ‘ right ’ to control ; market or contractual relations with the organization , rather than integration into it ; and occupational or professional solidarities and consciousness rather than working-class solidarity . |
| 21 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 22 | For the PROFITBOSS the profit-making process starts with recruitment . |
| 23 | With the financial institutions of the City closed for the weekend the normally bustling streets were clear enough to allow bursts of sixty to seventy miles an hour . |
| 24 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 25 | A visit to India being planned for the Prince the following year seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 26 | For the dessert the waiters fetched in a beautiful cake aglow with candles and everybody sang , ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ . |
| 27 | As for the stigma the child might face , does n't everyone have to live with some kind of stigma at one time or another ? |
| 28 | If the latest available RPI is for October , then we are attempting to make a forecast for the RPI the following January , in which case m = 3 . |
| 29 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 30 | In his search to act as arbiter and to secure for the papacy the defensor so needed in his ecclesiastical-political programme for Europe he had ( as it seemed ) changed sides three times , much as the princes themselves . |